The Donald Trump criminal indictment shocked public opinion in the United States and the world after the details of the formal accusation against the former president were revealed. The detail includes the payment of a bribe to a goalie to silence the rumor of an alleged extramarital child that the founder of the Trump Organization would have had with an employee before getting into politics. Although the fact was denied, the crime charged against Trump refers to the cover-up.
This Tuesday, April 4, the complete list of 34 charges that the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Braggdrew against the 45th US president. The list includes the Serious felony” of falsification of business records to cover up an illegal payment scheme ordered by Trump to cover up cases that would stain his reputation in the framework of the 2016 election campaign.
All 34 criminal charges against Trump
The other two cases of bribery for which the state of New York will prosecute Donald Trump refer to alleged extramarital affairs of the former president that involve the actress of erotic content, Stormy Daniels, and the former Playboy magazine model, Karen McDougal.
The doorman at Trump Tower
According to research headed by Bragg, a porter -identified as Dino Sajudin- received $30,000 after affirming that he had information about a son that the real estate magnate had out of wedlock with an employee of the Trump World Tower, a famous skyscraper near the UN building in New York. The payment was imputed by American Media Inc. (AMI), a media group that owns well-known entertainment magazines, in exchange for the assignment of exclusive rights to the story “in perpetuity”.
“In or about October or November 2015, the CEO of AMI learned that a former Trump Tower doorman was trying to sell information about a child Defendant allegedly fathered out of wedlock,” the indictment reads. alleging that AMI “mischaracterized this payment in AMI’s books and records, including in its general ledger.”
The indictment indicates that the outlet’s executive director, David Pecker, allegedly claimed he would work for Trump’s election campaign that year by trying to detect negative stories that could damage the businessman’s reputation. In case of breaking the contract, Sajudin would be penalized with one million dollars.
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty after being charged with concealed payments in 3 cases
“The story was not true”
Regarding the rumor about the son, the editorial line concluded that “the story was not true” so he tried to withdraw the agreement with the goalkeeper. However, a lawyer close to Trump made him give up that idea and told him keep the deal until after the presidential election of 2016.
In addition to the doorman, the one who denied the story was the woman who starred in the rumor, who denied in an interview with The Associated Press in August 2017 having had an affair with Trump. However, as with the Stormy Daniels case, the New York prosecutor’s office focused on the crime that motivated the cover-up of the rumor since it would have violated campaign finance laws.
The goalkeeper’s story is one of the cases that make up the indictment against Donald Trump announced by the jury last Thursday. This Tuesday the judge of the Manhattan Criminal Court, Juan Merchan, read before the defendant 34 cargos that include the “serious” offense of falsification of business records to cover up an illegal payment scheme that the prosecution must prove in the trial scheduled for January 2024.
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